Chief Future Officer: Melanie Kreis, DPDHL Group
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Chief Financial Officers now play a critical role in shaping corporate strategy and positioning organizations to meet future challenges. Bloomberg's monthly program, Chief Future Officer, profiles these leaders and explores the impact they're making on their companies and industries. In this episode, Deutsche Post DHL Group CFO Melanie Kreis tells Tom Mackenzie how the the logistics giant has built capital and diversified its portfolio while accelerating growth during the Covid pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Is inflation finally on the retreat? Can labor markets withstand an economic slowdown and demographic |
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| 0:29.0 | of future results? Before the COVID pandemic upended the way the world does business, |
| 0:36.1 | logistics was one of those industries that might have been taken for granted. That's not the case |
| 0:42.2 | anymore. Due to all the turbulences over the last two years, customers are now realizing how |
| 0:49.4 | important it is to have a reliable logistics partner on their side. How are people doing a quite |
| 0:55.9 | complex job? People think, oh, they just deliver passes somewhere. That's an easy thing. If you |
| 1:00.8 | think about what our people are doing, it's quite complex. Businesses and consumers are suddenly |
| 1:05.9 | thinking a lot more about how things they need reach places where they're needed. It's thrust |
| 1:12.7 | the sector into the spotlight. Logistics and supply chain has become a household need. It's |
| 1:19.7 | dramatically different than pre-pandemic. Yes, it's grown whether that's in market power, |
| 1:26.8 | revenue, profitability, investor interest. For Deutsche Post DHL Group, that's created |
| 1:33.4 | opportunity to build on momentum and set ambitious goals for service and performance. |
| 1:38.9 | When you look at our footprint, we're the most international logistics company there is. |
| 1:42.9 | We want to become more digital and we want to be much more sustainable than we have been. |
| 1:47.5 | DP DHL's revenue has soared since 2020 with full-year profit nearly doubling in 2021. |
| 1:55.4 | CFO Melanie Christ is a key leader of the team that's delivered these results and she views her role |
| 2:02.3 | as much more than just a number cruncher. There are unfortunately these clichés that finance |
| 2:08.4 | is boring and it's kind of like been counting in the back office to be successful in finance. |
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